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East Oregonian
PEANUTS
COFFEE BREAK
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
DEAR ABBY
BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ
Cat rescue leads to strained
relations between neighbors
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
B.C.
BY JOHNNY HART
PICKLES
BY BRIAN CRANE
BEETLE BAILEY
BY MORT WALKER
Dear Abby: I am a lover of and
hold, but also her — to ensure that
she is able to take care of herself.
rescuer of cats (and dogs). I rescued
a beautiful and loving cat with horri-
Dear Abby: My husband and I
ble wounds on his neck. I got him
divorced five years ago. We have
neutered, his wounds cleaned and
four grown children. He wanted to
sewn up, and became attached to
sell the house, but I ended up buying
him. I had asked my elderly neigh-
him out because two of our kids
bor if she wanted him. She said she’d
were still living at home.
Jeanne
think about it. She visited him at my
Fast-forward to now: We are
Phillips
house as his wounds healed, and a
expecting our third grandkid. Since
ADVICE
few months later she took the cat.
the divorce, he doesn’t want to
co-parent with me. He keeps saying
When I visited her a few months
after that, I saw she was feeding him
we are no longer a family. The holi-
so many treats that he was (I’m not exagger-
days and main events are now celebrated
ating) morbidly obese. When I told her so,
separately. I am increasingly sad about this.
she got insulted. She didn’t believe me, so
He refuses to be civil with me. He’s a racist,
she took the cat for a checkup at the local
and I happen to have a boyfriend of a differ-
veterinarian.
ent race living with me now.
The vet told her the same thing in no
His attitude is affecting our children,
uncertain terms, and to feed the cat no treats
especially the one still living with me. I want
and a certain low-fat dry cat food. With my
to be able to share the joy of our new grand-
kids and the successes of our children, and
help she ordered the food and I measured it
into bags to make it easier for her, as she gets
the dilemmas as well, but I can’t. Should I
a bit confused.
confront him? Or should I just consider him
“dead”? — Someone’s Missing in Massa-
I weigh the cat every Monday and he has
lost a bit of weight already. Slowly is the
chusetts
best way. But she’s not pleasant to work with
Dear Someone’s Missing: I seriously
and is fighting me all the way. I’m a patient
doubt that “confronting” your ex-husband
person and do my best, but sometimes it’s
will work out well. You are a loving, enthu-
hard not to lose my temper. Any suggestions?
siastic parent and you do not need your ex’s
— Cares About Fur Babies
negative attitude putting a damper on your
Dear Cares: Unfortunately, we don’t
happiness.
Continue hosting these celebratory
always get to know people until we see
them in action, as you are now doing with
events, and extend invites to your ex if you
this neighbor. For that cat’s sake, hang onto
wish. However, because of his racism, do not
your temper and continue to help her and
expect him to show up. That’s a good thing,
her fur baby. If she’s becoming increasingly
all things considered. Continue to dwell on
confused, it is important that someone not
the positive, and you and your children will
only keep an eye on the feline in that house-
all be happier.
DAYS GONE BY
From the East Oregonian
GARFIELD
BLONDIE
BY JIM DAVIS
BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE
100 Years Ago
May 18, 1921
A partial list of slackers from Oregon has
been received by the East Oregonian from
the war department, the list received being
offered for publication May 16. The list
received contains one name with a Umatilla
county address. The list has been referred to
County Clerk Brown, who was a member of
the county draft board. The same action will
be taken regarding subsequent lists received
by this paper. After the list is complete and
there has been full opportunity to check
against possible mistakes or chances of injus-
tice the slacker list for Umatilla county will
be published.
50 Years Ago
May 18, 1971
Armand O. Larive, superintendent of
schools in Hermiston since July 1948, has
submitted his resignation effective July 1. The
resignation was received by the Hermiston
School Board at its meeting Monday night.
Larive, 64, has ben ill about two weeks. He
came to Hermiston from Wallowa, where he
was the superintendent. Prior to that he was
at Murdock, S.D. “We have no plans to leave
here,” Mrs. Larive said today. “This will give
us time for things we haven’t had time to do.”
25 Years Ago
May 18, 1996
With only a couple days before the
Umatilla County voters take the first step in
choosing who will be sheriff for the next four
years, the three candidates — John Trumbo,
Larry Rowan and incumbent Gordon Camp-
bell — are going full bore. The stakes are
admittedly high. Trumbo and Rowan, who
have both had stints as the county’s top law
enforcement officer during the transition
to Campbell’s term, contend the future and
credibility of the sheriff’s department is in the
balance. For Campbell, a victory means vali-
dation of a controversial style and philosophy
that has faced opposition from a significant
number of his deputies.
TODAY IN HISTORY
DILBERT
THE WIZARD OF ID
LUANN
ZITS
BY SCOTT ADAMS
BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART
BY GREG EVANS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
On May 18, 1896, the U.S.
Supreme Court, in Plessy v.
Ferguson, endorsed “separate
but equal” racial segregation,
a concept renounced 58 years
later by Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka.
In 1642, the Canadian city
of Montreal was founded by
French colonists. (On this
date in 1765, one-quarter of
Montreal was destroyed by
a fire.)
In 1652, Rhode Island
became the first American
colony to pass a law abolish-
ing African slavery; however,
the law was apparently never
enforced.
In 1863, the Siege of
Vicksburg began during the
Civil War, ending July 4 with
a Union victory.
In 1910, Halley’s Comet
passed by earth, brushing it
with its tail.
In 1927, in America’s
deadliest school attack, part
of a schoolhouse in Bath
Township, Michigan, was
blown up with explosives
planted by local farmer
Andrew Kehoe, who then set
off a bomb in his truck; the
attacks killed 38 children and
six adults, including Kehoe,
who’d earlier killed his wife.
(Authorities said Kehoe, who
suffered financial difficul-
ties, was seeking revenge for
losing a township clerk elec-
tion.)
In 1944, during World
War II, Allied forces occu-
pied Monte Cassino in Italy
after a four-month struggle
with Axis troops.
In 1953, Jacqueline
Cochran, 47, became the
first woman to break the
sound barrier as she piloted a
Canadair F-86 Sabre jet over
Rogers Dry Lake, California.
In 1973, Harvard law
professor Archibald Cox was
appointed Watergate special
prosecutor by U.S. Attorney
General Elliot Richardson.
In 1980, the Mount St.
Helens volcano in Washing-
ton state exploded, leaving 57
people dead or missing.
In 1981, the New York
Native, a gay newspaper,
carried a story concerning
rumors of “an exotic new
disease” among homosexu-
als; it was the first published
report about what came to be
known as AIDS.
In 2015, President Barack
Obama ended long-running
federal transfers of some
combat-style gear to local law
enforcement in an attempt to
ease tensions between police
and minority communities,
saying equipment made for
the battlefield should not be
a tool of American criminal
justice.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor
Priscilla Pointer is 97. Base-
ball Hall of Famer Reggie
Jackson is 75. Former Sen.
Tom Udall, D-N.M., is 73.
Rock singer Mark Mothers-
baugh (Devo) is 71. Actor
Chow Yun-Fat is 66. Come-
dian-writer Tina Fey is 51.
Actor Spencer Breslin is 29.
Actor Violett Beane is 25.
Actor Hala Finley is 12.
PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN
BY DANA SIMPSON
BIG NATE
BY LINCOLN PEIRCE